L&T Launches Chennai Metro Line-5 ECV-02’s 1st Pier Cap

Larsen & Toubro on Wednesday morning erected their first 9.5m wide pier…

25 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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JKIL & ACIL Bid for Mumbai Line-2B’s Station Finishing Work

J Kumar Infraprojects and Ahluwalia Contracts (India) are the only 2 bidders…

25 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T’s Bangalore Metro TBM Vindhya Records Final Breakthrough

Larsen & Toubro’s tunnel boring machine Vindhya (DZ671) on Friday evening…

25 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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10 Bidders for Nagpur-Vijayawada Expressway’s Work in Telangana

10 construction firms have submitted a total of 24 bids to construct packages…

23 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 10 Comments
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6 Bidders for Delhi-Katra Expressway’s Pathankot Link Road

6 firms have submitted bids for the civil construction work of the 12.345 km…

23 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 1 Comment
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CMRS Inspects Bangalore Metro’s Whitefield Extension

The Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) from the Indian Railways’…

22 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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8 Bidders for Kochi Metro Phase 2’s General Consultant Contract

8 firms have submitted bids for Kochi Metro Phase 2’s General Consultant…

21 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Afcons Begins Kolkata Metro Line-6’s D-Wall Work at Airport

Afcons Infrastructure this weekend began work to construct the diaphragm wall…

20 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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ST Only Bidder for Chennai Metro Line 3 & 5’s Platform Screen Doors

May 6, 2023 Update: CMRL has cancelled the tender February 19, 2023 Original Post: Singapore’s ST Engineering Electronics Ltd. is the only bidder…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ETA Awarded Delhi Metro Line-8’s E&M, ECS & TVS Contract DE-09

ETA Engineering – Polycab India JV this week was awarded a Rs. 263.44 crore contract to install the electrical and mechanical system, environment…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Afcons’ Delhi-Meerut RRTS TBM S88 Relaunched from Bhaisali

Afcons Infrastructure this week recommissioned tunnel boring machine Sudarshan 8.1 (TBM S88) from Bhaisali Station to Begumpul Station for its final journey…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 3 Comments
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11 Bidders for Mysore – Kushalnagar Expressway’s Work in Karnataka

11 firms have submitted a total of 31 bids for the civil construction of 92.3 km Mysore – Kushalnagar Expressway project’s packages 2, 3,…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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6 Bidders for Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s C4 Tunnel Contract

6 firms have bid to construct 4.7 km tunneling Package C-4 of the 121.7 km Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC) project after Haryana Rail Infrastructure…

18 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 0 Comments
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8 Bidders for Bangalore-Vijayawada Expressway’s Packages 5-6 & 11-14

8 firms have submitted a total of 30 bids for the civil construction contracts of 518 km Bengaluru – Vijayawada Expressway project’s packages…

18 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 0 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.7 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 68.5 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 16 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km

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